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Eileen Battersby

Literary Correspondent

Eileen Battersby is an Irish Times staff journalist and our literary correspondent. She has written about all aspects of the arts, particularly classical music and literature, as well as archaeology, historical geography and architectural history and has championed fiction in translation.

Four times winner of the Arts Journalist of the Year award, she has most recently won the Critic of the Year and has published three books; Second Readings and Ordinary Dogs and a novel called Teethmarks On My Tongue published by Dalkey Archive Press.